[jandrese]

If the workstations were twice as fast and cost twice as much they would still have a good market niche. Instead they were more like 30% faster and cost 10 times as much.

Intel eroded that speed delta pretty quickly too. The other chip makers were crushed by Intel's billions of R&D spending.

[ncmncm]

Motorola's floating point was 5x as fast as Intel's.

That wasn't enough to overcome market positioning.